US Patent Issued to Kioxia on Sept. 30 for "Magnetic memory device" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,432,930, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Kioxia Corp. (Tokyo).

"Magnetic memory device" was invented by Kazuhiro Tomioka (Yokohama Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to one embodiment, a magnetic memory device includes a bottom electrode, a stacked structure provided on the bottom electrode, and including a first magnetic layer having a variable magnetization direction, a second magnetic layer having a fixed magnetization direction, and a nonmagnetic layer provided between the first magnetic layer and the second magnetic layer, a first sidewall insulating layer provided on a sidewall of the bottom electrode and...